1/14/2013 9:38 PM
I heard on the
news this morning that the football player that offed his girlfriend and then “took
his own life”, in the words of the squeamish, actually was drunk on his ass
when he pumped nine cartridges through his semi-auto handgun and into his
girlfriend, then put one through his own ‘-OH’-soaked brain.
This was a legally bought handgun (as far as I know)
which means he passed a background check.
He was one of the “law-abiding gun owners,” until suddenly,
he wasn’t. He became a raving criminal. And then a dead one.
The freak that shot twenty first-graders (for fuck’s
sake, FIRST GRADERS!) and six school personnel who were trying to stop him, had
started off the day by shooting a “law-abiding gun owner”, one who’d bought, trained
on, and stored safely, under lock and key, five different arms, including a
couple of semi-auto pistols, and at least one AR-15 Bushmaster .223 cal “American
Sport Hunting” rifle, like the one the looney used to kill all those goddamned
innocent children. In fact, exactly that rifle. Because that was his mother
that owned all those, and kept them in the same house as the whack-job she apparently
‘couldn’t handle anymore’ and may have been planning to commit to an
institution. But she thought keeping five guns in the house with him was a
fine, “law abiding gun owner” thing to do. Until he pointed one of them at her
head and started his march to fame.
Everybody, including Insane LaPierre of the NRA, wants to
point the finger at mental health as the problem. That it’s mental health, not
guns in the home, that cause all these destroyed families and wasted lives. And
not the lack of actual gun safety, gun registration, gun sales tracking, all
the little things that barely come close to gun control.
Because for gun control, we have to rely on the “law-abiding
gun owners” like this bozo linebacker, Belcher, who couldn’t hold his liquor,
his dick or his temper, but sure could hold a gun. Or Nancy Lanza, who bought all
those guns legally, and did everything to be a safe, competent owner, except
live in denial of where the real threat was. In her home.
And then there’s all those other “law-abiding gun owners”
or wannabe gun-owners who’ve been overwhelming the sales counters at gun shows lately, because ‘Tyranny is coming
again’ and ‘Obama wants to take your guns’. The believers of these lies, by
definition, demonstrate the same incompetence as Mrs. Lanza in judging real
threats, which come at the moments when “law-abiding gun owners” become drunk,
or angry, or tired. Tired of their husbands beating them, or of their wives cheating
on them. Maybe surprised by their child sneaking home late. Or just worn down
by how life is treating them, how it’s just not working out.
And then those “law-abiding gun owners” become killers, or
suicides, but definitely criminals, criminals that we should keep away from
guns, now that we know they’re nuts, or incompetent, or depressed.
Oh, wait, they weren’t criminals. They were “law-abiding
gun owners,” just a bullet ago.
1/14/2013 10:19 PM
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